The best intro is probably to read this series of blog like posts (starting from the bottom), then probably watching this trailer and then checking out the wiki for studying the crafting recipes... Eh, maybe watch the trailer first... Purists would tell you to just download the game and give it a whirl for at least the first day/night cycle but I think a little context is a good thing.

It also happens to be a huge blast with friends. Going around lighting pigs on fire and whatnot....

Its also cool to build some really fun things. Me and my room-mates are actually in the process of building a Pyramid, which the highest point is 55 Cubes high. God its taking so long, we got 1/4 done last night.

Dizik wrote:In short: During the day you build shelter to protect yourself from the things that come out at night.

Things, what kind of things? And what about the trailer that says you are not alone, whats that all about. Maybe I should try it. Is the .exe on the site a full fledged game or do I have to wait until the servers are up again?

(\_/) (O.o)(''')(''') Watch out for evil Terra-Tron; He Does not like you!

The game you can download on the site lets you play the singleplayer game. I'm going to guess the experience improves greatly when played with others though. Me and a friend were having fun with the water earlier. Making all kinds of crazy flows and the unexpected results that come.

I don't know... I bought the game and I haven't played it much since. The amount of investment that you have to put into your creations is very high, tremendously so if you're not "cheating" (server admins giving you tools). The survival aspect of it is also very shallow. I guess at some point I want to "test" my creations out and there's really nothing offered in the game, yet, that allows me to do so. If it continues to grow then I may come back. Until then $10 to support a very interesting project is still worth while to me.

"No I don't want the Ask toolbar! No I don't want Bing as my default search! No I don't want to make Chrome my default browser!""Good grief, man! WHAT are you trying to install on that poor computer?""Antivirus."

Most of the bugs were squishied during the pre-release phase. Sadly some texture packs (my fav included) still show spiders and endermen as white. I've read it's a transparency issue in the texture and not an actual bug. The new features and terrain generation is quite epic.

Most of the bugs were squishied during the pre-release phase. Sadly some texture packs (my fav included) still show spiders and endermen as white. I've read it's a transparency issue in the texture and not an actual bug. The new features and terrain generation is quite epic.

We've been playing with 1.8 since it was "leaked" on Friday (patch with the user-made fix for the XP orb bug). Its buggy and incomplete but super fun. I especially love the retooled world generator (oceans!!!). Now if we could just find a Stronghold...

drfish wrote:My server is still running 1.8PRv2 but I will update it tonight.

We've been playing with 1.8 since it was "leaked" on Friday (patch with the user-made fix for the XP orb bug). Its buggy and incomplete but super fun. I especially love the retooled world generator (oceans!!!). Now if we could just find a Stronghold...

Have you redone your worldmap yet? Two biomes, Taiga and Tundra are out until Beta 1.9.

I hate regenning just to get new biomes.

FWIW, I'm not scrapping the CBE map. We have a year's worth of grand projects that people would stop playing if we lost 'em, so we're thinking of having a mass exodus to new shores chunks to get the new content. You can walk back when you want to see the Old World.

We did start a completely new world and will likely do so again for 1.9. Our server is pretty small, only about a dozen people on the white list and rarely more than 6 playing at the same time and everyone was ready for a fresh start. Besides, check out how cool the new world looks, I don't want our old fugly one messing up the atheistic.

Behold! Warning, it links to a 16MB png...

The loop on the left side is my epic multi-day ocean voyage. Also, just look at how cool our starting area was with the large mountains on the smallish island...